Beyond Us and Them. Podcast on radicalization in the times of social polarization

Increased social and political polarisation encourages deepening radicalisation and the spread of extremist views. Various attempts are made in Europe to counter this, but there is still much to be done and new challenges are on the horizon. We look at these issues in interviews with people exploring or preventing these phenomena in different countries. Together we try to understand the processes undermining our democracies and to identify concrete solutions to stop the situation from deteriorating. Podcasts are developed in REDE project, implemented in DISCO programme of the CoE and EU.

Latest episodes

1. Part 7. Rasha Nagem tells Filip Pazderski about the emotions and human needs that extremist groups’ recruiters…

   24 Feb 2022

   Rasha Nagem from French organisation Les Militants des Savoirs talks about emotions and human needs that recruiters of extremist groups use online to play on, and why young people…

   38 min ▶

2. Part 6. Francesco Ragazzi tells Filip Pazderski about counter-radicalisation in European schools.

   05 Jan 2022

   Francesco Ragazzi from the University of Leiden tells Filip Pazderski about counter-radicalisation in European schools. He particularly highlights the dangers of trying to identify…

   55 min ▶

3. Part 5. A conversation with Patricia Hladschik on why education, including civic one, is not a kind of fire br…

   28 Dec 2021

   A conversation with Patricia Hladschik, Director of polis - the Austrian Centre for Civic Education in Schools, on why education, including civic one, is not a kind of fire brigade…

   38 min ▶

4. Part 4. Nathalie Paton from EHES talks to Filip Pazderski about how right-wing and Islamic extremists in Europ…

   23 Jul 2021

   Researcher from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHES) in Paris describes the differences in the online activity of each of these groups, the international relations b…

   44 min ▶

5. Part 3. A conversation with Matjaž Gruden - democracy needs people who trust them and know how to use them.

   23 Jun 2021

   Matjaž Gruden, a Director of Democratic Participation at the Council of Europe, tells Filip Pazderski how CoE realized that for democracy to function it is not enough to have only…

   39 min ▶

6. Part 2. A conversation with Markus Pausch about the positive and negative aspects of the polarisation process

   28 May 2021

   A conversation with Markus Pausch from the Salzburg University about the positive and negative aspects of the polarisation process for democracy and its impact on social radicalisa…

   47 min ▶

7. Part 1. Filip Pazderski speaking with Dr. Lukasz Jurczyszyn

   04 May 2021

   In the first part of the podcast we talk to Dr Lukasz Jurczyszyn about why interest in the process of radicalisation has increased worldwide after the terrorist attacks of the earl…

   46 min ▶